ANTH 2 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hypodescent, Sex Assignment, People Nation
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Race - a flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups. Racism - individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups. Colonialism - the practice by which a nation-state extends political, economic, and military power beyond its own borders over an extended period of time to secure access to raw materials, cheap labor, and markets in other countries or regions. White supremacy - the belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races. Whiteness - a culturally constructed concept originating in 1691 virginia designed to establish clear boundaries of who is white and who is not, a process central to the formation of u. s. racial stratification. Hypodescent - sometimes called the one drop of blood rule .
